Increase the speed of your Blackberry Pearl

To keep your Blackberry Pearl running at the peak of its capabilities, youre going to want to make sure youre not wasting valuable memory on stuff you dont need. Youd be surprised at what hogs up the memory. Well look at a few of the main items and how to delete or manage them.

Let’s take a look at exactly how much memory is available on your Blackberry Pearl. Here’s what you need to do:

1. Go into your phone options. You’ll find these by clicking on the wrench icon.

2. Everything is listed in alphabetical order, so scroll down to STATUS and click on it.

3. FILE TOTAL lists the absolute capacity of your phones memory.

4. The portion of that capacity available is listed as FILE FREE.

Ok, so now that you know how much you have to work with, lets see how big we can make that File Free number.

One of the first things you can do is clean out your inbox. This is pretty straight forward, but something that’s often overlooked. If you don’t need it on your phone, delete it.

Compressing Your Content

If you don’t already have content compression enabled on your Pearl, you’ll want to do that next. I can’t tell you exactly how much room this will open up since I’ve used it from day one. If you’re not using it, it will give you a quick boost in available memory.

1. With the main screen open you’ll see all of your icons on one screen (not the home screen).

2. Click on the little wrench icon (options).

3. Use the pearl to move down to “SECURITY OPTIONS” and press the pearl button.

4. Scroll to and click on General Settings.

5. Scroll down to Content Compression.

6. If it doesnt say Enabled click on it and select it now.

7. Press the little button to the left of the pearl (it’s called the Blackberry button).

8. Now choose SAVE.

Content compression is now activated on your phone. From now on your movies, pictures, music, emails and calendar items will take up a lot less room on your phone. This will increase the amount of memory you have available.

Delete Applications You Dont Use

If you never play BrickBreaker, dont let it hog up all the memory on your Blackberry Pearl. You might be surprised at how many programs are hanging out on your Pearl. Heres how you find them and delete the ones you dont want or need.

1. From your HOME screen, press the “Blackberry Button”. This should give you a window with all of the icons on it.

2. Highlight the little wrench and press the pearl button. These are your Blackberry options.

3. Highlight and select Advanced Options.

4. Scroll to and click on Applications.

5. Choose any applications you don’t think you’ll need.

6. Press the Blackberry button (it’s just left of the Pearl).

7. With that application selected, press the Blackberry (menu) button.

8. That’s it. Now select any other programs you want to delete.

Note: Some applications will require you to restart your Blackberry Pearl before theyre completely removed.

There are a number of other tricks you can use to free up memory on your Pearl. Try the above steps and see if you still need more room. You should see a big increase in the performance of your Blackberry Pearl.